Everybody knows the dice are loaded.
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed.
Everybody knows the war is over.
Everybody knows the good guys lost.
Everybody knows the fight was fixed.
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich.
That's how it goes. Everybody
knows...
Everybody knows the scene is dead
But there's gonna be a meter on your bed
That will disclose
What everybody knows...
Everybody talking to their pockets.
Everybody wants a box of chocolates
and a long red rose. That's how it goes.
Everybody knows.

The
program premiers were available to every television set in the region
because of a high-mileage media hybrid.

The shows appeared on both commercial and community stations. The non-corporate
entity produced the events, commercial TV greatly expanded distribution.

Thus began an ongoing series of sane public interest programs which
generate both entertaining heat and more than a little light.

Please spread the word and consider contributing to the cause online
at ReSurge.TV.

You may also take the public option known as the U.S. Postal Service
and send a check or money order to ReSurge.TV, P.O. Box 10034, Reno
NV 89510.

Your contribution will help fund the distribution as well as ongoing
efforts at developing new media, including a regional, non-corporate
community radio station and the return of community television to Reno-Sparks-Washoe.

You are present at the creation of what I hope can become a new media
model where the programming accurately reflects what's happening on
the ground and the media impact is powerful enough to forcefully pass
the message upward.

Such is the case with northern Nevada's
Public Broadcasting System affiliate, KNPB TV-5. I've been protesting
(and on one occasion, reversing) Channel 5 censorship since 1997.

I've criticized current GM Kurt Mische for not airing Bill Moyers
in this market and for being the only station outside Mississippi to black out
the Hillary Clinton-Bernie Sanders debate. (Barbwire
3-1-2016)

UPDATE
5-24-2016: From the Public Broadcasting System ombudsman: "According
to researchers here: The GM, Ronnie Agnew, clarified that Mississippi Public
Broadcasting carried the debate."

AB: That means only KNPB blacked
it out. Nevada is number one in something seedy once again. We should be so
proud.

Karmic chickens came home to roost
last week. On the 11:00 p.m. May 11 Charlie Rose show, John Heilemann
of Bloomberg Politics described how Donald
Trump's campaign "fxxxed-up." He later noted some of
the "sxxt" they caused.

There was a time (c. 1988-92) when the feisty Daily Sparks Tribune would
not censor. Randy Frisch and Christopher Smith ran it raw, no-holds-barred,
no-shirt-no-shoes-no-problem. People lined up at newsracks all over the region
to buy what us crazy bastards were writing.

In the waning days of the deregulatory Reagan administration, the Federal
Communications Commission even began allowing Carlin's Magnificent Seven.

The bailywick was polled two weeks ago and apparently juice
lobbyist Peter Ernaut panicked. The man who created Brian Sandoval
had his governor endorse Guinasso. The Reno Gazette-Journal printed the
press release on May 10 without including any comment from Mrs. Krasner.

The next day, columnist Jon Ralston echoed with a thousand-word hatchet
job which probably brought Ernaut to the edge of ecstasy. Again, Mrs. Krasner
was not interviewed. In last Sunday's RGJ, yesteryear candidate Orrin
Johnson turned the hat trick.

It's an instant replay of 2014 when Ernaut pulled out all stops to save incumbent
Randy Kirner who beat Krasner by only 11 votes.

Guinasso was just endorsed by the
Reno-Sparks Chamber of Commerce after promising he would continue Kirner's
quest to dismantle the Public Employees Retirement System.HALL OF FAMEformer Nevada Assemblymember Bob
Price, D-North Las Vegas, remains bedridden. He's been moved to ManorCare,
2350 Wingfield Hills Rd., Sparks 89436. Send well-wishes and flowers to the
longtime Sparks resident. Nancy Price encourages visits to cheer up the legendary
warrior.

Bob Price served almost three decades
in the lower house. Bob and Nancy retired to Sparks years ago. He has been a
member of Las Vegas IBEW Local 357/AFL-CIO for more than half a century.
He helped build the showroom at the Las Vegas Hilton which was opened
by Elvis Presley in 1969. Bob has the King's autograph on his old lunchbox
to prove it. He chaired the Assembly Taxation Committee for many sessions and
became legendary for his advocacy on behalf of the little guys.

In its Sunday 21 Dec. 2014 front
page headline major story, the Reno Gazette-Journal published results
of the NVEnergy-commissioned "don't worry, be happy" echo
study. On 1-27-2015, the RGJ published an analysis
based on veteran reporter Anjeanette Damon's review of more than 1,000
pages of documents. Barbwire bottom line: NVE handles this like auto
manufacturers handle defects >
It's cheaper to pay legal settlements after people are injured or killed than
to fixthe problem.

Don'tcha
worry 'bout a thing! If you can't trust your power company, whom can you trust?

I encourage you to donate
to the cause at Barbwire.TV/ The medium
that shapes public opinion needs at least one refuge where it is not filtered
through the distorted green eye shades of prissy corporate accountants for whom
profit is the only priority; where self-censorship is the journalist's normal
work environment and where all sins of omission are tacitly encouraged and forgiven
with the wave of a balance sheet. This is important. We've got a lot of work
to do.